Morgan Stanley & Crowley to Advance Wind Energy Solutions in US

The caller associated task volition strategically harvester Crowley’s end-to-end maritime and logistics capabilities with Morgan Stanley Investment Management expertise to beforehand offshore upwind vigor solutions for the US.

Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM), done Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners (MSIP), has partnered with maritime, vigor and logistics solutions person Crowley to make the U.S. offshore upwind vigor industry.

Investment funds managed by MSIP volition clasp a bulk involvement successful a caller associated task Crowley Wind Services Holdings, portion Crowley volition run the business.

The partners volition repurpose and run existing U.S. larboard facilities, arsenic good arsenic lease them nether semipermanent contracts to offshore upwind developers. It is expected that the terminals volition enactment the manufacturing, assembly and retention of upwind workplace components arsenic good arsenic supply developers with maritime services e.g. utilizing feedering vessels to transport components from ports to offshore upwind installations.

To statesman with, Crowley plans to statesman operation of the Salem Wind Services Terminal this fall. It volition enactment the improvement and cognition of offshore upwind lease areas disconnected the northeast U.S. coast. The terminal volition beryllium built successful concern with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Clean Energy Center and the City of Salem, Massachusetts.

The projected tract is 42 acres of waterfront spot successful a Designated Port Area of Salem Harbor. Most recently, the spot was the tract of a 750-megawatt (MW) ember and oil-fired powerfulness plant. Now, the country volition beryllium redesignated to cleaner vigor accumulation providing caller heavy-lift deployment and logistics services for offshore upwind operations.

The institution already has plans for different US regions too. Besides pursuing the improvement of a U.S. West Coast terminal successful Eureka, California, Crowley besides has a right-of-first refusal statement to lease and perchance make a upwind services terminal astatine Port Fourchon, Louisiana.

“In our view, the U.S. offshore upwind manufacture is successful its aboriginal stages with ambitious goals to make 30 gigawatts of capableness from offshore upwind by 2030 and unlock a pathway to 110 gigawatts by 2050. We judge larboard infrastructure is indispensable to the build-out and semipermanent attraction of offshore upwind projects and we are excited to spouse with Crowley to supply the foundational infrastructure that volition alteration the improvement of this important industry.”

Daniel Sailors, Managing Director, MSIP

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